Challenges?

Additionally, I feel calling my contacts up on the weekly to discuss listings without being able to physically see the properties may exhaust the relationship.Have any of you faced this challenge, and if so, what techniques did you use to help overcome this?

There has to be a separate custodian that handles the money so you never get it in your account, but once you have it set up, it's really not too bad.And those loans have the benefit of being non-recourse, so there's that too

Just handle it on the debt side.

And for duplexes, I require tenant to handle yard work and snow removal.

The meetings are a little challenging for me to get to due my full time business hours and the distance to drive to one.

Doing a BRRR from long distance can be extremely challenging.

To prepare for the next recession, I want to have cash to scoop up more properties, but at the same time also handle the inevitable loss of rents (with tenants losing their jobs). 

Unfortunately, low income people generally have different challenges than upper middle or high income.

We love cozy.co (notice that isn't .com...that goes to something different) as it's simple to use, handles the background checks for us, makes it simple to collect rent and is easily linked to other social media sites so we can get the word out that we have a rental available.